Professor Popper (Charlie Drake) develops a shrinking formula with which he plans to solve the world food crisis.
The idea is that vast stocks of food can be sprayed and reduced to a single plane-load, flown to any famine area in the world and then treated with an antidote which restores the load to its original size.
But the eccentric professor and a group of school kids take the formula by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory.
The plot thickens when a gang of London villains plan to steal the formula and spray it all over the Bank of England, reducing it to the point where it can be packed in a suitcase and sold to the Americans.
Popper hangs on to the formula in a hair-raising chase with a giant tarantula spider and a remarkable ride through London aboard a roller skate.
Professor Popper
Charlie Drake Simon
Adam Richens Liz
Debra Collins Terry
Philip DaCosta Angus
Todd Carty Carol
Karen Saunders Peter
Eric Holloway Professor Crabbit
Milo O’Shea Crickle
Sydney Bromley Headmaster
Richard Caldicot Grainger
Alan Curtis Rollins
Leo Maguire PC Whitby
Keith Smith
Director
Gerry O’Hara
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The idea is that vast stocks of food can be sprayed and reduced to a single plane-load, flown to any famine area in the world and then treated with an antidote which restores the load to its original size.
Professor Popper
